Edouard Vuillard

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was born in Cuiseaux, France in 1868. In the beginning of his career, he used the conventional media usually oil on canvas. By the mid-1890s and began to take interest in the patterns and textures of fabrics, wallpapers and carpets. The majority of Vuillard’s paintings from the 1890’s are small, intense domestic interiors painted in a style of patterns and somber interacting colors so that the figures are at first indistinguishable from the furnishings. After 1900 Vuillard was commissioned to paint large decorative panels of urban landscapes and parks for his patrons mansions. For the rest of his career he sought transcendence in scenes of domestic tranquility that reveal the intimacy of the home and often painted his collectors in their favorite rooms. Later in his life, Vuillard concentrated heavily on portraiture of famous actress, artists and thinkers. He combined with his knowledge and practice of portraiture with his love for interiors. He died in Paris in 1940.